Jonathan, you're getting the techs right...now you just got to get these birds not flying away from you. Sharp and well exposed. Processing-wise I find the image quite blue - adding some yellow to PS "Color Balance" will rectify that. I would also compose the image with the subject a bit lower and more to the left of the frame.
Agree with Daniel, these are getting better and better. Get them coming toward and you will have some awesome flight shots! very cool keep them coming.
You are getting closer to being in the right spot....
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Jonathan...I like the sharp body and wing blur combination. Not sure how much space you have in orig...but placing the bird more towards the left and a little lower will make it better.
I like it, a neat photo with good focus on the head and the wing blur looks good.
Agree, a bit of a turn towards you would be better, but a nice shot as is.
Thanks very much, the comments are helpful and encouraging - just hope I am not boring you to death with these images I am moving the feeder again and hopefully my position in relation to the feeder will at last start to give the correct flight path for more pleasing images. It isn't easy baring in mind the position of the sun (when we get one that is!) the background, and getting the camera and lens combo correct, sometimes its the 500 and others it's the zoom. While I am taking flight shots of these small passerines I am still hoping to get the magpie in flight... and then there's the jay ...and the woodpeckers, boy it's hard having fun
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I am moving the feeder again and hopefully my position in relation to the feeder will at last start to give the correct flight path for more pleasing images. It isn't easy baring in mind the position of the sun (when we get one that is!) the background, and getting the camera and lens combo correct, sometimes its the 500 and others it's the zoom. While I am taking flight shots of these small passerines I am still hoping to get the magpie in flight... and then there's the jay ...and the woodpeckers, boy it's hard having fun
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